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Authorised form of nameMcClintock; Barbara (1902 - 1992)
Dates1902 - 1992
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthHartford, Connecticut, USA
Date of birth16/06/1902
Place of deathHospital, Huntington, New York, USA
Date of death02/09/1992
Research fieldPlant genetics
ActivityEducation:
College of Agriculture, Cornell University. PhD (1927)
Career:
Fellow, National Research Council (1931-1933); Gugenheim Fellow (1933); Research Associate, Cornell University (1934-1936); Assistant Professor, University of Missouri (1936-1941); Staff, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, Laboratory, Long Island (1941-1992); Visiting Professor, Californian Institute of Technology (1953-1954); Andrew D White Professor-at-Large, Cornell (1965-1992); discovered transposable genetic elements, known as 'jumping genes' and presented her findings (1951); first woman in her category to receive an unshared Nobel Prize
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1983
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election29/06/1989
Age at election87
RelationshipsUnmarried
SourceSources:
Obituaries: Times (05 September 1992); Independent (07 September 1992)
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1994 vol 40 pp 265-280, plate, by Nina V Fedoroff
References:
Digitized papers available at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/LL/
CodeNA5972
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002859McClintock, Barbarand
EC/1989/45McClintock, Barbara: certificate of election to the Royal Society1988
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